Tag: war
member name: Bill Allin
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July 22, 2006 06:09 PM EDT --
I only wanted to put her out of my misery.
The purpose of this article is not to convey my innermost feelings as I struggled to avoid the temptation to snuff out someone's life. It's to show how . . .
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September 15, 2006 07:31 PM EDT --
"The highest result of education is tolerance."
- Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903
As odd as this quotation may sound, I believe it has merit.
In this case, "tolerance" . . .
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November 20, 2006 06:33 PM EST --
"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and satirist (1742–1799)
Any belief is, almost by definition, . . .
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September 28, 2006 07:39 PM EDT --
Warning: The following article contains adult thinking. Some readers may be offended because they have no idea what the article is about.
"Everything you see or hear or experience in any . . .
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July 15, 2006 05:57 PM EDT --
"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
- Stewart L. Udall, U.S. politician
Though I hesitate to quote politicians at any time (I quote acknowledged statesmen on occasion), Mr. Udall . . .
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September 02, 2006 06:09 PM EDT --
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
- Stendal (Marie Henri Beyle), novelist (1783-1842)
For those of us who have no idea what this quotation . . .
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January 13, 2008 07:27 PM EST --
First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.
- Thomas a Kempis, German ecclesiastic (1380-1471)
Those who live without peace in themselves will not acknowledge the . . .
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February 06, 2008 09:13 AM EST --
Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
- Marilyn Manson
I am not one who believes that musicians and other entertainers should not express their opinions publicly, . . .
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February 16, 2008 05:37 PM EST --
One of the most ambitious emperors in history mounted the biggest naval invasion force in history and suffered the greatest naval disaster in history, changing world history thereafter in the process. . . .
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May 26, 2008 07:15 PM EDT --
Typically, the weakest spot of men is their manhood, be it physically or mentally. We all know that a blow to the genitals can bring down the strongest man. But striking at a man's sense of manhood . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:36 PM EDT --
"Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only . . .
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July 29, 2006 02:11 PM EDT --
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
- Thomas Paine, American . . .
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October 05, 2006 07:53 PM EDT --
"Education will never be as expensive as ignorance."
- Anonymous
I must veer away from my usual practice and express this clearly as my personal opinion.
Most, if not all, of the ills . . .
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November 14, 2007 06:29 PM EST --
When the Soviet military pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, Afghan citizens cheered wildly because the Soviets had reportedly killed about one million Afghans during their occupation of the country. . . .
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July 07, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
- Helen Keller
Blind and deaf from the age of 19 months, Helen Adams Keller knew what it was like to have . . .
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March 01, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now only that place where the books are kept.
- John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968)
Let me say at the outset . . .
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March 26, 2007 05:08 PM EDT --
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
- RD Laing, psychiatrist and author (1927-1989)
One dictionary defines insanity as a "relatively permanent disorder of the mind." . . .
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April 21, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti, Cuban freedom fighter and hero (1853-1895)
When you read the quotation you might be tempted to think that it was . . .
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August 17, 2008 07:03 PM EDT --
Religion--freedom--vengeance--what you will,
A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.
- Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)
Almost every war is fought under the banner of a religion. Though the religion . . .
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September 19, 2006 08:02 PM EDT --
A moment that makes life thrilling:
watching a gathering of crows.
Then thoughts of war dead come chilling.
As every soldier rightly knows,
there's no god who favors killing.
- Anthony S. Maulucci, . . .
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